I fondly remember the couple of Saabs my family owned when I was growing up. I think the first car my dad ever bought new was a Saab 96. They were one of the first (somewhat) popular front-wheel drive cars -- there were car races on frozen lakes where almost all the drivers used a Saab because of the front-wheel drive.

I loved driving our Saab (I was 16 and had a newly acquired driver's license) although I had some problems handling the manual transmission with a clutch. It led to a couple of embarrassing moments.

Had a double black 87. VERY fun car. Wish we could have got the Cosworth motors instead of the SVO motor. Handled great. Awesome ergonomics. a 6ft tall adult could sit comfortably in the back seat. The downfall to the US model was the SVO engine. very temperamental it was their 4cyle pickup truck engine with a turbo. The engine was not designed to be a turbo and lacked the oiling needed and lacked oil coolers it needed. That said...little turbo tweeking and you were dogging most other cars on the road including GT mustangs and v8 camaro's etc.